Re: PHP 5.6 life cycle

On 07/12/15 11:18, Rowan Collins wrote: > Lester Caine wrote on 07/12/2015 09:42: >> Providing PHP7 clean alternatives with usable upgrade paths is the >> only way that PHP5.2/3 can be deprecated fully, so any debate on an >> arbitrary EOL for 5.6 is simple pie in the sky? When will Python2 >> disappear ... now unlikely it ever will? Is PHP5.2 any different? > > People said the same about PHP 4, but eventually it did disappear, and I > think 5.2 is well down the same road (counting 5.3 as being 6.0 in all > but name). Things are certainly heading in the right direction, but 5.2/3 is still only dropped bellow 50% in the last month, while PHP4 was well down when the actual EOL was proposed. 80% of people were using PHP5.2 in 2010 against 20% on PHP4, and that swung to 90/10 in 2011 mainly because PHP4 sites could be switched to PHP5.2 ... switching 5.2/3 sites to PHP7 is not so easy, but http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/pl-php/5/y probably shows the best picture, with people migrating to PHP5.4 as the next step ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk